Hello everyone, we are new to this forum, and any help would be really appreciated!
We are now 20 days past the start of incubation for our parrotlet hen's second clutch (the first clutch had no hatches). This morning, our hen abandoned the nest and now shows no interest in it. She has spent the rest of the day climbing around and mating with the male. There are six eggs, all of which are fertile, and the older ones showed movement. One of them has done drawdown and may have done the internal pip. We started up our incubator and placed them in around an hour-ish after the hen left them, it has been 4 hrs now and I just turned and checked them. At least a couple of them are still moving.
So we had bought this incubator in case of emergency and that seems to have happened. However, we are totally new at this. We have read many different things, but so far, this is what we are doing: keeping humidity high ~80% for the hatching one, keeping the temp as close to 37.2 as possible, and turning the eggs 1/3 of the way every 4-6 hours, back and forth.
Someone please please please let us know if we are doing things right, and if not, what we need to do differently. Thank you very much!
Eric and Heather
We are now 20 days past the start of incubation for our parrotlet hen's second clutch (the first clutch had no hatches). This morning, our hen abandoned the nest and now shows no interest in it. She has spent the rest of the day climbing around and mating with the male. There are six eggs, all of which are fertile, and the older ones showed movement. One of them has done drawdown and may have done the internal pip. We started up our incubator and placed them in around an hour-ish after the hen left them, it has been 4 hrs now and I just turned and checked them. At least a couple of them are still moving.
So we had bought this incubator in case of emergency and that seems to have happened. However, we are totally new at this. We have read many different things, but so far, this is what we are doing: keeping humidity high ~80% for the hatching one, keeping the temp as close to 37.2 as possible, and turning the eggs 1/3 of the way every 4-6 hours, back and forth.
Someone please please please let us know if we are doing things right, and if not, what we need to do differently. Thank you very much!
Eric and Heather